Trinity Technology Enterprise Campus

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Trinity is planning the development of the Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus (TTEC). TTEC will be located in the heart of the Dublin Docklands. TTEC will house new research institutes focused on bringing together multiple disciplines – engineering, computer science, natural sciences and material science – which will work at scale to tackle some of the most challenging research problems facing enterprise and society. In addition Trinity’s four national centres – the SFI Centres AMBER, CONNECT and ADAPT and the EI / IDA Technology Centre Learnovate – will be housed on the new campus; allowing enhanced interaction, collaboration and industry engagement. In addition, TTEC will provide significant space for industry co-location and for the development of new and innovative incubation space for early stage and scaling companies. A key learning from international innovation districts is that the density and proximity of new and scaling businesses is essential to obtain the critical mass needed for the district to act as both an effective accelerator and attractor of companies. In addition this infrastructure attracts not just innovative companies but venture capital, angel investors, services companies and in time the large multi-nationals who want to be aligned with and adjacent to the energy and disruption which comes from scaling companies. In addition, the presence of scaling companies also makes the campus and district economical and representative of the triple helix of government, academia and industry. This kind of infrastructure is missing in the Irish context and can be fulfilled by the ambitions of this campus. TTEC can also continue to provide a home for the Lir Academy and the School of Creative Technologies. When completed TTEC will have in excess of 100,000m2 of new space.